Washington State Patrol wins award for DUI crackdown

The Washington State Patrol has been named by its peers as the top agency in North America when it comes to getting drunk drivers off the road, WSP announced Friday.

The award from the International Association of Chiefs of Police recognizes an agency’s “year-round efforts to detect and apprehend impaired drivers and to address impaired driving through policies, officer training, and public information and education.”

“We consider every DUI arrest a potential life saved,” said State Patrol Chief John R. Batiste in a press release. “We never know which drunks will kill, but we know with certainty that some of them will.”

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